Aldergrove … loving this nostalgia.

Northern Ireland has the lowest spend on public transport among the UK nations, official figures suggest. ✍ JPCampbellBiz bbc.in/3ZgUlLp

🔹“It’s like being in England” 🔹”It feels like being in an airport.” 🔹 “Belfast now looks like a proper city.” Some reax from passengers at Grand Central. 📍

Scotland’s Programme for Government — 4 priorities, with a 47-page briefing on the pathway to delivering them, including the legislative agenda. gov.scot/binaries/conte…

no jokes, no messing about, just truly honoured to have won the John McGahern Prize for Fiction grateful to the organisers, and to Frank Shovlin for this gorgeous profile in The Irish Times, and to Colm Tóibín (The Laureate for Irish Fiction) for choosing Close to Home irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

✈️🐋 The Airbus Beluga, named after the whale that the aircraft resembles, made its way to London's Heathrow airport from Toulouse to deliver spare parts for a damaged Airbus plane 🔗 trib.al/OopRrB7

This is quite possibly the first cover of The Atlantic magazine ever (in 167 years!) to be published without a headline or typography describing the stories inside. Here is The Atlantic's October cover:

Jeffrey Donaldson court case: 10 reminders ahead of Tuesday hearing | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

“This significant incident is the latest in a series of violations against UN staff including shootings at convoys and arrests by the Israeli Armed Forces at checkpoints despite prior notification.” — UNRWA unrwa.org/newsroom/offic…

The Northern Ireland Executive has “rowed back” on a commitment to increase student numbers to 10,000 at Ulster University's Londonderry campus, Foyle MP Colum Eastwood has said. bbc.in/4dQQbOC

The Irish government is set to ban disposable vapes after cabinet approval was given on Tuesday to draft laws. bbc.in/3AWZX3n

I was just on BBC Radio Ulster, being interviewed by William Crawley about "Hidden Belfast, Forbidden Love" - a new drama series about David Strain, a forgotten gay diarist who lived in Northern Ireland a 100 years ago...

BREAKING: President Joe Biden is "not ruling out" allowing Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russian territory, the US secretary of state has told Sky News news.sky.com/story/biden-no…

Who knew? Australia's ABC News places the USA's Electoral College...in Belfast, at Queen's University Belfast 🎓's Lanyon Building...

BREAKING: Swedish Court Sends Ex-CEO of Swedbank to Prison for lying about Russian money laundering at her bank. Very powerful move! occrp.org/en/news/swedis…

Today is for my father, Pat Finucane. The announcement that there will now be a public inquiry into his murder is very much welcomed by our family. Led by my mother Geraldine, we have campaigned for decades to uncover the truth behind my father’s murder. I want to thank

This is David Strain. God-fearing, clean-living, hard-working. Never touched the "demon drink". Utterly conventional... apart from in one way. David was consumed by his love & desire for other men. How - in *1930s Belfast* - did he begin to understand what that meant? 🧵

About £700m is needed to raise student numbers at Ulster University's Londonderry campus to 10,000 - progress has been made a taskforce finds, but challenges remain bbc.in/3zg97r2

I’m not a lawyer and I understand that sentencing guidelines constrain tariffs, which are also informed by individual circumstances, but I can’t understand the leniency of this sentence. Can anyone?

Brilliantly focused questioning here — and the reporter isn’t prepared to allow the interviewee to distract and dissemble.